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Nic Dalton (that's me!) will be playing in solo mode on Sunday 10th August supporting up and coming country-pop singer Natalie D-Napoleon, ex-Perthian who is now based in sunny California. Also on the bill Tim Oxley (he of HAC's very own Grandview ) and the Orphans. All this happening at the Cat and Fiddle, 456 Darling Street, Balmain. Starts at 1pm, I'm on at on at 3.30pm and will be playing a couple of songs of the 'new' Trafalgar cd and a whole lot of new ones, including some from the number two Gloomchasers album (which we've been finishing off recently). See you there!
Here's something sent to us via a Youtube message!
from: vegetasrevenge
Gloomchasers
I would like to inform you that my band, The Gloomchasers, has been using that name since the early 90's. Also note that the original Gloomchasers which played during the depression era has a direct descendant in our singer Stevie Z. His grandfather played drums in the original band.
I would like to kindly ask you to cease using our name.
Thank you.
John Rasile
Guitarist, the Gloomchsers (sic)Nic Dalton and the Gloomchasers Orchestra Home of the Big Regret
Nic Dalton Last Seen Near Trafalgar 87-89
Nic Dalton Romolo 86-88buy Nic Dalton music here at Half A Cow.the live band:
In Sydney, it is Kevin McClaer on the bass, Danny Heifetz on drums and trumpet, Nic Dalton on lead vocals/guitar/mandolin and Lucy Lehmann on gutstring guitar/backing vocals and Gavin Farley on banjo We're rehearsing over summer and will be playing around Sydney from Feb '07 onwards.
In Melbourne, the lineup was Paul Rigby on the banjo/mandolin, Ben Mason on the bass, Lachlan Franklin on the drums/guitar, Nic Dalton on lead vocals/guitar/mandolin and Lucy Lehmann on gutstring guitar. Everyone sings harmonies. This lineup has already recorded six songs for the next album.The album is about a two-thirds done and is due out March '09There's Nobody Coming Over filmclip made by two 15yr olds from Cowra High School.for the record: For five years, Nic Dalton lived on a farm at the outskirts of Morongla, population 40, in central-west NSW. It was a regular occurrence, on the way to Sydney, to drive through Goulburn, Home Of The Big Merino. When his long-time girlfriend, Lucy Lehmann, left him, he declared Morongla Home Of The Big Regret and changed the sign to 'Pop. 39'. Nic had always planned to record his second solo album (his first was the 1998 release, Romolo, a collection of four-tracks from 1986-88) before his fortieth birthday. "At the beginning of 2004, when I started to list all the songs I wanted to record, it dawned on me that half of them were either written by Lucy, or co-written with her. We'd broken up the year before, but had remained long-distance friends. It was looking like this album was about our relationship - a break-up album. So I called Lucy and told her this. We wrote a few more songs together to bring the concept to a full realisation." Home Of The Big Regret has an almost entirely acoustic line-up, a world away from what Nic had originally envisaged for his second solo-album: "I always thought I'd do it with a regular line-up of electric guitars, keyboards and group vocals - folk-rock with a few psychedelic overtones." The sound of the album is a response partly to five years on a farm, where a lot of country, folk, bluegrass and singer-songwriter music found its way onto his record-player and also to the contributions that Lucy, a life-long country and western devotee, made to their co-writes. The songs on Nic's to-do list simply lent themselves more to a mandolin and a gutstring guitar than to fuzz pedals and the trusty ol' Casio MT-65. Home Of The Big Regret was recorded between July and November 2004. "I wanted the sound of some late-60s country pop production line, where each song is stamped with exactly the same mix of instrumentation." The standard electric guitar/bass/drums rhythm section was replaced by an underlay of banjo and mandolin with country bass and drums. John Encarnacao scored string arrangements for each of the thirteen tracks. "He said to me, 'You're not going to have banjo and mandolin on all the songs?' I said, 'Of course!' " Some of Australia's finest bluegrass musicians play on the album - The Lynch Mob from Cowra, Jenny Shimmin on banjo and Mick Moffitt on mandolin. Danny "Mr Bungle" Heifetz is on drums and Bill Gibson on bass. Members of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra play strings, and other guests include Marcus Amann, Darren Hanlon, Ben Pettit, Tom Morgan and Leticia Nischang.Nic Dalton with the Gloomchasers Orchestra's Home Of The Big Regret is available on cd (from Half A Cow Records) and on 12" vinyl (from Best Unbeaten Brother, Norway).
